Statistics Norway

Family counselling service

13 Figures national family counselling service. Figures for 2006
  Total Region North Region Middle Region West Region South Region East
Population, total 4 681 134  462 237  653 290  967 471  906 090 1 692 046
Gross operating expenditures, family counselling service1  266 591 35 235 35 880 48 663 48 759 98 054
Adjusted gross operating expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  149 279 26 885 11 767 18 779 16 416 75 432
Wage expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  113 141 20 654 8 907 14 232 12 866 56 482
             
Family counselling service cases 29 584 3 866 3 798 4 572 5 779 11 569
Family counselling service cases, public owned family counselling offices 16 305 2 943 1 157 1 694 1 924 8 587
Average waiting time per case, all cases, family counselling service 26 20 31 33 24 24
Average duration per family counselling case (days)  116 86  147  127  110  117
Average number of sessions per family counselling case during the year 2.9 2.3 3.0 3.3 2.7 2.9
Average number of sessions per family counselling case since the establishment 4.1 2.9 4.8 5.0 3.8 4.1
Average man-hours per case during the year 3.9 3.3 4.3 4.1 3.8 4.0
Average man-hours per case since the establishment 5.6 4.2 6.9 6.2 5.2 5.7
Total time used on sessions during the year, family counselling  116 281 12 579 16 436 18 817 21 685 46 764
Total time used on sessions since the establishment, family counselling  166 458 16 156 26 025 28 376 29 828 66 073
Total number of sessions during the year, family counselling 84 963 8 743 11 251 15 072 15 891 34 006
Total number of sessions since the establishment, family counselling  122 078 11 386 18 076 23 030 21 929 47 657
             
Couple related issue main reason for enquiry, all cases 14 458 1 453 1 755 2 519 2 925 5 806
Parent-child related issue main reason for enquiry, all cases 2 961  376  348  516  567 1 154
Issue trusting to collaboration about children main reason for enquiry, all cases 7 954 1 383 1 149  967 1 512 2 943
Issue related to other family members or other main reason for enquiry, all cases  843  122  118  135  154  314
Individual problems main reason for enquiry, all cases 3 368  532  428  435  621 1 352
             
Main actions in the counselling, couple counselling, all cases 12 952 1 137 1 557 2 125 2 581 5 552
Main actions in the counselling, parents-children counselling, all cases 1 355  175  170  198  253  559
Main actions in the counselling, collaboration about children, all cases 4 928  885  851  531  985 1 676
Main actions in the counselling, counselling with the rest of the family/others, all cases  273 35 25 35 59  119
Main actions in the counselling, individual counselling, all cases 9 903 1 620 1 159 1 643 1 856 3 625
Main actions in the counselling, group treatment, all cases  173 14 36 40 45 38
             
Man-years, family counselling  386.6 59.0 56.5 54.4 72.3  144.4
Man-years family counselling by social workers  144.2 29.1 22.0 24.6 25.1 43.4
Man-years family counselling by psychologists  101.8 10.3 15.4 12.9 14.4 48.8
Man-years family counselling by other than social workers and psychologists 72.3 7.6 10.9 10.2 19.6 24.1
Man-years family counselling by office workers 68.4 12.0 8.3 6.7 13.3 28.1
Vacancies family counselling 14.3 1.3 2.2 0.2 2.3 8.3
             
Time spent on group therapy 1 902  122  117  202  509  952
Time spent on relationship enhancement courses 3 302  636  431  244  727 1 264
Time spent on other measures for users 2 767  241  172  197  452 1 705
Time spent on information/guidance of students 1 139 93  173  276  174  423
Time spent on consultation/guidance of the support service 2 866  258  448  301  838 1 021
Time spent on courses/information of the support service 2 380  265  314  524  323  954
Time spent on information to the media  393 36 18  102 42  195
1  Gross operating expenditures are given in NOK 1 000.

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